The Lost Colony

Sir Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh was an English adventurer and writer who established a colony near Roanoke Island, in present-day North Carolina. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London and eventually put to death for treason.

North Carolina

A state of the southeast United States bordering on the Atlantic Ocean. One of the original Thirteen Colonies, it was settled by colonists from Virginia in the mid-1600s

Anglo Spanish War

A war between England and Spain from 1585-1604.

John White

An English artist and mapmaker, he was the governor of the Roanoke colony in 1587. Grandfather of Virginia Dare.

Croatoan

An island on the Outer banks of North Carolina, also the name of the Native American tribe on that lived on the island

Queen Elizabeth I

She encouraged English explorers to explore the New World. She gave Sir Walter Raleigh permission to begin England's first colony in North America.

Roanoke Colony

The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, established on Roanoke Island, in what is today's Dare County, North Carolina, United States, was a late 16th-century attempt by Queen Elizabeth I to establish a permanent English settlement. The colony was founded by Sir Walter Raleigh

Virginia Dare

Virginia Dare was the first white Christian child born in the British Colonies in the New World. She was born to English parents, Ananias Dare and Eleanor White, and named after the Virginia Colony.